In the wake of the dramatic changes that have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989, the old-new scrouge of anti-Semitism seems to have reappeared. The removal of the Communist regimes in the countries under discussion has meant that long-suppressed political, ideological, religious and social attitudes and their expression not only toward Jews – have suddenly been released. To examine these attitudes and developments in depth and try to determine where they might lead, The Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Antisemitism convened an international conference on "The Danger of Antisemitism in Central and Eastern Europe in the Wake of Recent Events." This conference, took place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, between 28-29 October 1990.

This fully documented history of the mass movement of almost 3000,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust is an exodus narrative for our times that reads like a modern detective story. Starting in 1944, after their liberation from the Nazis, thousands of Jewish families began to move out of Eastern Europe in the largest spontaneous and illegal migration in recent times. Based on official archives in Israel as well as on interviews and privately held records, Brichah is a story of great personal exploits, fantastic organization, and tenacity, as well as the chronicle of a great historical event.